dead and rotting rudolfat an education institution, catching buses around the campus - i keep forgetting important things. i join a group of girls with mauve streaks in black hair ... chatting idly when a fist-swinging mindless boof-head thick-necked yob approaches threatening me. regardless of potential danger i shriek potent insults back, until an authoritarian figure comes up and warns me i'm in trouble, and that i'll have to go and explain to the head woman administrator. i think my academic record stands me in good stead.
i stroll through a lavish ball-room dressed in a floorlength crimson chinese embroidered gown, jewels and a cloak. a voice in the back of my mind wonders if i'm over-doing the outfit just to visit a school administrator. i'm shown into a small room of her house.
the corpse of rudolf valentino lies on a flower-laden bier. his skin is discoloured, going purple and his eyes are sunken. i walk into the next room and he is there also! he opens his eyes and asks me the time. i tell him in spanish and he smiles as dashingly as he could (being a corpse) and promptly begins to rot. his leg burst open exposing bone and meat. i tell the admin what happened (with the yobbo), she is nice, she says 'you're in clan analogue are'nt you? i really admire what you are trying to do for women in electronic music' i have the feeling she will forgive me. back in the next room the other rudolf lies slightly moving his head back and forth. i can smell the sickly rotten sweet smell of death, i try to breathe through my mouth.
copyright 1995 lisa bode